Research and Impact
Existing programs that bring together law and engineering generally focus narrowly on patent law. Penn State LPE will lead this area by reflecting more broadly and creatively about complex societal problems that require combined engineering, law, and policy solutions.
Potential Areas for Research and Scholarly Collaboration
Energy (e.g., sources of energy, secondary systems that use energy – electricity and transportation, energy transition; etc)
- Sustainable buildings
- Human habitat and planetary stewardship
- Smart transportation and infrastructure
- Autonomous vehicles
- Transformational robotics
- Nuclear security
- Election security and protecting democracy
- Internet security
- Intellectual property in the global information age
- Technology of controlling space
- Health technologies (e.g., 3-D printed biomedical devices)
- Human identity and privacy
- Food production and security
- Water availability and security
- Sonic/acoustic issues
- Big Data and the engineering of numbers
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Legal technology
- Sports safety
- Space waste
- Mining asteroids
